To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

P.J. O’Rourke

Poverty is not an act of God. It is the result of flawed policy, and that is a moral challenge.

Senator Paul Simon

You need some inequality to grow…but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions

Thomas Piketty

A few wealthy individuals and corporations have bought up our private sector and now they're buying up the government. Campaign finance reform is the most important issue facing us today, because it impacts all the others.

Bernie Sanders

Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

We’re running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

Elon Musk

The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.

Marc Veasey

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self defense. It’s patriotism.

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